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Behind the simple modern altar, the columns branch high overhead into the arched vaulting of the apse.
1320s), to the right of the apse, and two St. Johns in the Peruzzi Chapel next door.
The Roman basilica’s long colonnaded nave leading to an apse gave way to the Greek cross with a central space surrounded by arches and topped by a dome.
In the Upper Basilica, reopened in 2000 after intense round-the-clock restoration, Cimabue’s works in the apse and left transept have turned black, looking like photo negatives because of the oxidized white lead in his paints, yet you can still feel the intensity of the crowd’s anguish in his Crucifixion, blessedly untouched by the earthquake’s damaging force.
In the apse beyond, the Baroque master gives full vent to his exuberance with his bronze and marble Cathedra of St. Peter, throne of the Apostle’s successors.